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  • Thinking about it a bit more, I think it's more like the metrics used to get in front of a human (the automated/hr part) aren't well matched to the actual goals. We end up interviewing a lot of people who are good on paper according to the first sort, but actual good hires within that aren't as common as we'd like. But none of the engineers ever know about any of the people who were disqualified due to having an unimpressive resume...

    So in the end, the initial sort does indeed end up wasting time and money, but no one's gotten around to making a good solution for this yet. The alternative so far is to interview a bunch more people, which is also really expensive anyway.

    Basically, we have no efficient way to find people who are bad on paper but are actually quite skilled.

  • That... Isn't what I'm saying? I'm saying they won't bother to go to the interview phase with those people most of the time because they have higher probability options to try instead.

    Usually getting in front of a human for an interview is the hardest step. Once you're talking, you can generally show your expertise, and most interviewers I've known are receptive to any sort of past experience that's techy and related enough, or even just problem solving related.

  • Just to put out the other side of this, you're competing with a lot of people with more visible credentials. If the hiring manager can look through the stack and pick out 10 people to interview all with easily understood credentials, they have no reason to consider anyone else. Interviewing isn't free for the company, every additional candidate to consider is probably at least an hour or more of time the company is paying someone for.

  • I mostly agree with the article, but I'll say that hiring based solely on resume experience is really hard for software. Experience honestly translates poorly to ability in my... experience.

  • Wirecutter used to be good, but they've pretty much entirely sold out to whoever pays them I think. The Spruce Eats seems maybe slightly better than them these days for that sorta household stuff?

    TechGearLab and OutdoorGearLab are still good.

    Project Farm on YouTube is top tier testing for tools and whatever else catches his eye, though I wish it was a little easier to see the results in a spreadsheet instead of having to screenshot the video.

  • Try this one, I found it easier to at least think I understand what it's talking about: https://www.quantum-munich.de/119947/Negative-Absolute-Temperatures

    Basic attempt at eli16: Temperatures are defined by entropy, rather than kinetic motion like we're used to thinking. In certain constrained systems, it's possible to create a situation where there is a maximum energy state, and saturating the particles in the system such that they're all close to that state creates a situation where the entropy starts decreasing (the system is less disordered since all particles are at the same maximum energy). That state where the entropy is decreasing is where negative temperatures exist.

    End attempt. Disclaimer, I'm probably wrong, having spent just a few minutes skimming these two articles and trying to summarize what I understood.

  • ... Okay, I just tried Stract, and its results are... Mostly not helpful.

    My understanding is that Kagi makes an effort to tell you how they anonymize your search so they can't tie it back to your account afterwards, whereas Searx is more dependent solely on the goodwill of whoever is hosting the instance. Both are good faith dependent in the end, but one has a profit motive for keeping that faith.

    Edit: I hope Stract gets there and takes off one day, but today doesn't seem to be that day for me.

  • Honestly nothing has changed since the OG tpb days, you can even still use tpb. BitTorrent should be replaced with qBitTorrent or something I think, I haven't exactly changed my client in years. You have more choices of VPNs now if you care about that I guess. Some of the other old good trackers are defunct, but I think Reddit still has an actively maintained wiki of good public trackers...

  • I've wanted to try them before, and even bought whatever people were saying was a good starter a few years ago. The issue is that I honestly never write anything in pen. I think the only time I do is when I'm addressing a letter or check, which never happens these days. So the pen just dried out with basically no use...

  • Neo Launcher is decent, but it's definitely not in the same league as Nova yet in customizability.

    I'm not sure why it's just about the only classic style FOSS launcher though. Everything else is some sorta search or widget based thing.

  • I was literally told once that they were no longer hiring for the role I applied for because Facebook had slowed hiring and they were slowing hiring too in response.

    The company I was applying to isn't even in the same industry as Facebook, other than both being tech companies.

  • I should just let this go, but part of what offends me about vaping is that people will do it instead of smoking in spaces where smoking is explicitly banned. Since it's smoking adjacent to me mentally (and to a limited extent in causing harm to third parties), I dislike that. And we do ban things like perfume in gyms because it causes unreasonably unpleasant experiences for the people around you, and I shower after grilling or frying if I'm going out, because it is unpleasant for the people around me. It's different degrees of unpleasantness for everything, but I don't think it's unfair for me to dislike people blowing vape clouds in my face indoors.

  • Just saying that second hand vaping exposure seems to be something that isn't well understood, but potentially harmful. Just like how vaping is proving not to be harmless to the paper these days. That's what differentiates it from those other smells you're mentioning to me.

  • Vaping has associated the smell of cotton candy with assholes who can't keep their smelly (and potentially dangerous) substance abuse away from unconsenting people, because they think no one will mind because it smells like cotton candy.

    Edit: I legitimately prefer the smell of cigarettes at this point. At least no one's deluding themselves about the social acceptability of that.